# 雇

| 雇 | U+96C7, &#38599; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C7 |
| ← 集 [U+96C6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 雈 → [U+96C8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

雇 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸人土 (HSOG) or 戈尸人土 (ISOG), four-corner 3021$_4$, composition ⿸户隹(GV) or ⿸戶隹(HTK) or ⿸戸隹(J))

#### Derived characters

* 僱, 顧, 𢻠, 𤡵, 𢩤, 𩴡, 𤺮

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1365, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41976
* Dae Jaweon: page 1870, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4096, character 2
* Unihan data for U+96C7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 雇
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 妒 | *tqaːs |
| 雇 | *kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 顧 | *kʷaːs |
| 戽 | *qʰʷaːʔ, *qʰʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 戶 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 扈 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 帍 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 昈 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 滬 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 簄 | *ɡʷaːʔ |
| 齭 | *skʰraʔ, *sqʰraʔ |
| 所 | *sqʰraʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ) : phonetic 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ) + semantic 隹.

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 雇 – see 僱 (“to employ; to hire; to be employed; to be hired; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 僱).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *w(a/u) (“bird, egg, wing, fowl”) (STEDT).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hù (hu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hù
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hù
*** Wade–Giles: hu$^4$
*** Yale: hù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huh
*** Palladius: ху (xu)
*** Sinological IPA : /xu⁵¹/
* Middle Chinese: huX
Rime :
| Character | 雇 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 侯古切 |
| Baxter | huX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦuo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦuo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɣuo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | hù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wu$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 雇 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 5300 |
| Phonetic component | 戸 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 戸 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡʷaːʔ/ |

#### Definitions

雇
* migratory birds

#### Compounds

* 雇主 (gùzhǔ)
* 雇倩
* 雇員 (gùyuán)
* 雇妻鬻子
* 雇工 (gùgōng)
* 雇農 (gùnóng)

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04456

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 雇 |
| Kyūjitai | 雇󠄁 雇+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 雇󠄃 雇+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* to employ; employment

#### Readings

* Go-on: く (ku)、ぐ (gu)
* Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
* Kun: やとう (yatou, 雇う, Jōyō)、やとい (yatoi, 雇い)

### References

* ↑ “雇”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 雇 (MC kuH). Recorded as Middle Korean 고〯 (kwǒ) (Yale: kwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

### Hanja

Wikisource 雇 (eumhun 품 팔 고 (pum pal go))
* hanja form of 고 (“employment”)

#### Compounds

* 고용 (雇傭, goyong)
* 고용 (雇用, goyong)
* 해고 (解雇, haego)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

雇: Hán Nôm readings: cố
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